Raymond W. Kelly

A rookie police officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to manslaughter, official misconduct and other charges in the shooting death of a man in a pitch black stairwell of a Brooklyn public housing complex. Officer Peter Liang appeared briefly in a Brooklyn courtroom as the charges, which also include criminally negligent homicide and assault, were unsealed in the death of 28-year-old Akai Gurley. Liang's attorney, Stephen Worth, maintained the shooting was an accident. The officer was released without bail. Gurley was killed on Nov. 20 while visiting the Louis Pink Houses, a public housing complex in the East New York neighborhood, to get his hair braided. Liang, who had been an officer...

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